All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel JohnsonI would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
Samuel JohnsonHe that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
Samuel JohnsonAll knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.
Samuel Johnson